Re: 2.6.24-rc4-git5: Reported regressions from 2.6.23

Andrew Morton
2007-12-08T09:47:04Z

On Sat, 8 Dec 2007 03:40:49 +0100 "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl> wrote:

> This message contains a list of some regressions from 2.6.23 which have been
> reported since 2.6.24-rc1 was released and for which there are no fixes in the
> mainline that I know of.  If any of them have been fixed already, please let me
> know.
>
> If you know of any other unresolved regressions from 2.6.23, please let me know
> either and I'll add them to the list.
>
>
> ..
>
> Subject : system hangs after a few minutes
> Submitter : Marcus Better <marcus@better.se>
> References : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9335
> Handled-By : Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
> Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
> Patch : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/attachment.cgi?id=13871&action=view
>

This one we have a confirmed fix from Alan but it doesn't appear to be in
anyone's tree.

There is a second bug in here, applicable to core x86: Marcus's machine
won't boot with nmi_watchdog=1.